Simians Vs Sanctuary

[KuhaN]

Wasn't my idea, was the best idea Chrissi ever had. I think simians is merchants.

Simians biggest problem is sanc appears to all be uniform in size, and Simians doesn't have enough provinces to chain 450k acre provinces (meaning they don't have a ton of provinces around 350k NW). Whereas Sanctuary with their 450k NW provinces should be the perfect NW to chain down simians 450-700k NW provinces. Simians NM and NS won't really help them here since that will just lower Sanc's NW even more and take them deeper out of NW range. NM and NS is good when you're topfeeding, not so much when you're bottomfeeding.

In order for Simians to win they need to gain control of the bottom by keeping enough defense at home so that sanc's smaller provinces can only 1-2x their smalls. It can be done, dwarves did it to our orcs in some fights last age, and Avians should be better at it than dwarves. Per their CE, it looks like both sides are just 4x'ing eachother, which plays right into the orcs hands.

Ive had some experience warring against orcs in the last two ages, it was always the worst idea chaining them down first. What my kd ended up doing was just fireballing them and letting them get fat, while we chained down hybrids. Obviously, sanct v simians the base is all one race so u cant do this.

Even if an orc has virtually 0 defense at the bottom end of average size, theyre a major pain in the ass. So good points on coordinating to kill their off, i think its a must against orcs.

Also, im not sure why simians went merch? Isnt this ideal for kds coming oop big, or kds that are dicing, or kds with bad econ (which avian doesnt seem to have relative to ud or orcs)? How much does merch help in a long drawn out war really? Are you getting the necessary solds to train? I guess what im trying to say, unless ur dicing, how do u not pick cleric with avian, seems like a no brainer to me...